Anagrams of TRACTRIX_

• A tool, similar to a hatchet, used to prepare slate for roofing.

• a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)

• a passage selected from a larger work

• remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense

• get despite difficulties or obstacles

• deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

• extract by the process of distillation

• separate (a metal) from an ore

• obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action

• take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy

• calculate the root of a number

• A governess; a rectoress.

• A flight feather on the tails of birds, used for directional control.

• The covert of a bird's wing

• (mathematics) a rectangular array of quantities or expressions set out by rows and columns; treated as a single element and manipulated according to rules

• (geology) a mass of fine-grained rock in which fossils, crystals, or gems are embedded

• an enclosure within which something originates or develops

• the body substance in which tissue cells are embedded

• the formative tissue at the base of a nail

• mold used in the production of phonograph records, type, or other relief surface

• a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)

• a person having great power

• Betwixt, between

• a cart that is drawn by an ox

• abnormally enlarged or twisted blood vessel or lymphatic vessel